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the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead Send a noteboard - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM
So at the current rate I'm flying through LA COMMUNAUTÉ DE L'ANNEAU (roughly a page every ten minutes), I expect to blast through the remaining 652 pages in a little over 108 hours. Instead of focusing on that particular misery, a survey of sorts:

1) what's the longest time you've spent reading a book?
2) do you ever get put off by length?
3) what about complexity?
4) how long is too long?
5) Is there any hope of me making it through Tom Bombadil in this thing?

Y'all have a great day now, y'hear.


1) dunno
2) not so much the length, a short read can be unreadable if it's rubbish, like the riftwar series by feist
3) no i like complexity
4) a billion pages?
5) i hate him in every language
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Books that take a long time to read. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM 1291 Views
I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... Legolas - 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM 971 Views
It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM 384 Views
What's your strategy for that? Legolas - 03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM 896 Views
The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM 389 Views
Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... DomA - 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM 991 Views
Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. Camilla - 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM 854 Views
Re: Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. DomA - 04/08/2010 03:04:12 PM 1149 Views
Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM 377 Views
Re: Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. Camilla - 06/08/2010 08:23:17 AM 769 Views
Precisely. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/08/2010 05:42:34 AM 375 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Camilla - 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM 1022 Views
monobiblic? unilibric? lyringlas - 03/08/2010 05:18:35 PM 854 Views
Re: monobiblic? unilibric? Camilla - 03/08/2010 05:20:04 PM 894 Views
the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM 839 Views
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon snoopcester - 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM 848 Views
Yeah, I read the abridged version for one of my classes. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:07:43 PM 848 Views
*shudders* Tom - 03/08/2010 07:11:34 PM 836 Views
Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM 902 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Stephen - 03/08/2010 03:45:20 PM 819 Views
I'm having the hardest time trudging through The Idiot LadyLorraine - 03/08/2010 04:22:29 PM 877 Views
Me love you long time. Rebekah - 03/08/2010 05:24:43 PM 847 Views
The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM 1141 Views
I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM 350 Views
Why? Tom - 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM 844 Views
Camilla's post above pretty much encapsulates it; I want to practice my French with something I know *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:55:02 AM 388 Views
The Bible, hands down. Vodalus - 03/08/2010 07:22:37 PM 1022 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM 899 Views
for fiction... damookster - 04/08/2010 01:50:38 AM 1110 Views
Not counting stuff like the Bible, Gardens of the Moon DREWRULESWOT! - 04/08/2010 06:39:12 AM 952 Views
The Sound and the Fury random thoughts - 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM 770 Views
That is not at all surprising. Rebekah - 04/08/2010 02:52:37 PM 826 Views
I love the prose but I can't follow the story random thoughts - 06/08/2010 02:41:10 PM 797 Views
that just means i don't have time to read.... temeraire - 05/08/2010 04:30:42 PM 806 Views
The Book of the New Sun took me 3 months to read. Zach - 05/08/2010 06:35:08 PM 1056 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. j-whitt987 - 06/08/2010 02:07:59 AM 854 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 12/08/2010 02:29:12 PM 970 Views
Never understood being put off by length Sandwich - 12/08/2010 07:33:26 PM 977 Views
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